Fire extinguisher and alarm.



No. 655,776. Patented Au ym, I900.

S. H'ALTEN E.

FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND ALARM. (Application filed Apr, 10, 1900.

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S. HALTENE.

FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND ALARM.

(Appficstion filed Apr. 10 1900.)

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Uniirnn STATES SAMUEL HALTENE, OF GREENVILLE,

KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN MCINTOSI-I, OF SAME PLACE.

FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND ALARM.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,776, dated August 14, 1900.

Application filed April 10,1900.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL HALTENE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Green- Ville, in the county of Muhlenberg and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Fire Extinguisher and Alarm, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a novel fire extinguishing and alarm system.

The object of the invention is to produce a simple, inexpensive, and effective apparatus by means of which an alarm will be automatically sounded and water applied in a building at any point which may be threatened by fire.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fragment of a building equipped With my system. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the water-tank and its valves, and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the automatic valve and alarm actuating mechanism.

Referring to the numerals of reference indicating corresponding parts in the several views of the accompanying drawings, 1 indicates a portion of a building provided at any suitable point, preferably upon the roof, with a water-tank 2,1":rom which extend two or more outlet-pipes 3,communicatin g with valve-casings 4, in which are mounted valves 5, having their stems projecting beyond the casings and into contact with valve-levers 6. From these valve-casings 4 extend nipples 7, connected to a closed system of thin rubber tubing 8, which ramifies throughout the building and is preferably supported along the walls directly under the ceiling. This thin and, if desired,inflammable tubing is preferably connected in a continuous intercommunicating series of branches directed particularly around the exit-openings and along the edge of any woodwork which may be employed in the construction of the building.

Located at any desired point, but preferably immediately under the tank 2, are two compressed-air cylinders 9 and 10, in which air under pressure is designed to be stored. The cylinder 9 is provided with a nipple 11, extending from its bottom and connected to a branch 12 of the tubing system.

13 indicates a piston movable Within the Serial No. 12,337. (No model.)

cylinder 9, from which projects a piston-rod 14, having a terminal crosspiece l5, terminating at one end in a trip arm 16 in retarding engagement with an element of a springactuated alarm mechanism 17 and connected at its opposite extremity, as by chains 18, with the valve-levers 6.

The cylinder 10 is provided with an airwhistle 19, controlled by a lever 20 in operative proximity to a lug 21, projecting from the piston-rod 14.

In operation, supposing the cylinders 9 and 10 and the system of tubing to be filled with air under pressure, the piston 13 will be in contact with the alarm mechanism 17 to prevent its operation, the valves 5 will be closed, and the lug 21 will be located out of contact with the whistle-lever. If now a fire should break out at any point in the building, the immediately-adjacent tubing will be burned, thereby permitting the fire to escape from the tube system and from the cylinder 9. The diminution of the air-pressure under the piston will cause the gravitation of the latter, and this operation will effect the opening of the valves 5, and the water from the tank will flow into the tube system and be discharged in proximity to the combustion through the opening in the tubing. At the same time the trip-arm 17 will release or trip the alarm mechanism, causing it to be sounded, and the lug 21 will actuate the whistle-lever to sound an additional alarm.

If desired, the tank 2 may be filled with compressed air above the water-level; but if the tank is sufficiently elevated this precaution will not be necessary.

What I claim is- 1. In a fire extinguisher and alarm, a source of water-supply, a closed tube system in communication therewith, one or more valves controlling the communication between the water-supply and the tube system, a pair of compressed-air tanks, one of which is in communication with the tube system, and is provided with a plunger or piston, an operative connection between the plunger and the valves, a Whistle operated by the other tank, a trip carried by the plunger, and a whistle lever, which is fulcrumed intermediate of its ends, one end being in operative relation to the whistle, and the opposite end being located in the path of the trip.

2. In a fire extinguisher and alarm, a source of Water-supply, a closed tube system in communication therewith, one or more valves controlling the communication between the water-supply and the tube system, a pair of compressed-air tanks, one of which is in communication with the tube system, and is provided with a piston or plunger, a plunger-rod projecting exterior-1y of the adjacent tank, a transverse head provided upon the outer end of the rod, an operative connection between one end of the head and the valves, a springaotuated alarm normally held inactive by the opposite end of the head, a trip carried by the plunger-rod, a Whistle operated by the other tank, and a whistle-lever, which is fulcrumed intermediate of its ends upon one of the tanks, one end of said lever being operatively connected to the whistle, and the 0pposite free end thereof being located in the path of the trip.

In testimony that I'claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

SAMUEL HALTENE.

VVitnessesi J. M. SMITH, GEo. OATLETT. 

